#software

Whatever sh-t vendor product they are using to do their screen recording surveillance work, su-ks hard, my Windows laptop last few weeks, has had major pauses and sluggishness when using web forms (any page) , button clicks , or typing, it just pauses for 2-5 seconds, then continues.. WTF

Its pretty clear its a surveillance product as it periodically blanks out my screen , usually in the middle of something , and capturing my keystrokes.... I use these machines exclusively for work, i have my own phone for personal stuff., so I dont care if they want to pay me to wait around, but its stupid frustrating

Any from CSO know what surveillance cr-p theur using and is there anyway to optimize these machines to to be so innundated with cr-p vendor software

AI will do your work for you but make sure you read everything because it doesn't do it right so you're going to spend twice as much time checking the AI. Don't worry about using tokens because we're going to optimize for tokens and anyway no one got to use it this week because we pushed an update and all the agents crashed.

One thing I guarantee: anyone who's good at software development is working for another company, not wells .

This is what happening.

I worked for InAuth, which was acquired by American Express. The company was run by a bunch of people who didn’t understand how to manage a software project, create a marketing plan, or exercise any meaningful leadership skills. Management was highly motivated to increase their frequent flier miles and avoid getting fired before their bonuses arrived. Everyone was interested in making money and getting promoted, but no one wanted to fix the constantly-breaking software. Charles Crupper distinguished himself by his inability to understand who the bad actors were, and to believe every self-promoting id--t who came his way. InAuth could be a business school study in how MBA’s should not run a technical company. Stupid is as stupid does.

Software org got it first. Curious if other orgs are hearing the same thing. This is more restrictive than pre covid now.

I don't know who got the fat bonus for deploying this unusable software straight to production, but seeing as we can't spend any time doing actual work, where do we go to complain about this?

Best line Ive heard in ages, "Oracle is a law firm masquerading as a software company".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py23zYn1GMw

It’s official. A manager officially announced they installed software to monitor offshore folks. Ended up cutting 6 of them. Stated not watching FTEs but that’s a bold faced lie. If you go to the bathroom too long you’ll start being micromanaged be careful out there!

The malignant claws of Oracle, Amazon, Workday and Salesforce have finally dug in deep enough and metastasized. It was inevitable but still very sad.

From the earnings release:
Software — revenues of $7.8 billion, up 5 percent:

• Hybrid Cloud (Red Hat) up 11 percent
• Automation up 4 percent, up 3 percent at constant currency
• Data up 19 percent, up 18 percent at constant currency
• Transaction Processing down 8 percent, down 9 percent at constant currency

$M
Hybrid Cloud 1,998
Automation 1,951
Data 1,782
Transaction Processing 2,030

Obviously Hybrid Cloud = Red Hat and Transaction Processing = all the old legacy mainframe SW like IMS, CICS, TPF, etc. But where do some of the other recent large SW acquisitions go? I assume Turbonomic and Apptio go under Automation? Datastax and Confluent go under Data? Where does Hashicorp go?

My sense is that pretty much ALL of the reported SW growth is coming from those 6 relatively recent acquisitions, not anything actually developed at IBM. But I'm curious which of those acquisitions are contributing most.

I asked someone at the sc aquarium if their blackbaud payment software works well and he said it breaks when they need it most.

Make sure to keep working hard though. Do good. More like do bad worse.

All to line the pockets of Mike G.

Oracle signs 10-year software contract with Pentagon worth up to $7 billion

• Oracle will supply on-premises software to the U.S. Department of Defense over 10 years in a contract worth up to $7 billion.
• The company’s software is common inside large companies, but the business has largely shifted of late to a focus on AI infrastructure.
• Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison was among the first guests to appear at the White House in President Donald Trump’s second term.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/oracle-wins-10-year-pentagon-software-contract-worth-up-to-7-billion.html

Pat Gelsinger says the chipmaker went off the rails ‘when it started to be run by business people’. (See: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/former-intel-ceo-says-chipmaker-185823655.html)

Same rule applies to EDA? A software maker derails the moment it is led by a CAE.

Any engineers hearing about layoffs today?

How special tech talents are hired in states where there are no software development centers?

It allows MS to take screen shots of your computer every so often and store them on the PC.

It amazes me how many d-mb decisions those above me in leadership make. They call in multiple 3rd party companies to direct them when they have thousands of people who have worked hand in hand with clients everyday for multiple decades and know what they want.

Investing in a POS solution wasn't Genius at all. Global put it's self in a market that immediately made all of your biggest partners leave because you are now the competitor.... Instead of increasing what was huge partnerships to just handle the payment processing. Both Tsys, Heartland, and Global all had 1000s of large partners and the companys were profitable but Global blindly decides to disrupt its own base and wonder why they are going broke... Get back to the foundations and focus on being the best payment processor and partner. You cannot compete in a software world where anyone can build their own POS now. Focus on being the payment partner of choice for every software.

https://www.crn.com/news/software/2026/cisco-to-lay-off-471-workers-in-california-software-engineers-hit-hardest

Kudos to our IT leadership.
It takes real talent to invest millions in new software and end up with something less capable than what we already had. I can’t help but feel for the business leaders who are funding these projects and expecting better results.

Stupid FINET send me my money to SAP you stupid app

Software engineer - anyone negotiated notice period to less than 30 days?

Just don’t wanna burn bridge.

Vivek's purview to say with confidence that the most important applications at Verizon outside of network operations. POS, point-of-sale, intakes some 70+% of ALL of Verizon’s revenue. ACSS is a superset of that software. This software is utter garbage. I mean it’s just layers on layers of undocumented spaghetti code written by contractors that were seemingly plucked from the streets, paid 50,000/yr, and whose agency was billing Verizon 120,000/yr for their time here. At a company with Verizon's profits a full stack developer should reasonably expect to start here and be able to search a UI for any service or data they need to build pretty much anything you could conceive. Yet you won’t find a single shred of such documentation. GTS leadership has passively allowed layers and layers of teams to be stood up where each team only works on one segment of one leg of any end to end business process. No one engineer is empowered to build a single feature holistically end to end without pulling people from 2-3+ teams to get the job done. Often the job is just chaining some API calls and making a UI to display the results. Something a decent college CS graduate could build independently if there was proper documentation. Instead engineers are tasked with endless non-funded pet projects in some obscene race to be the team that shows the shiniest little half functional proof of concept to the nearest VP. All the while our most integral systems are held together with popsicle sticks, glue, and chewed up bubblegum. Everything is expected to be done yesterday. No one cares about code quality thus software/product quality. Most of the leaders within GTS could not solve a LeetCode medium if their families lives depended on it, assuming they even knew what LeetCode was. The sad part is the same is true for most of the Principle Engineers, Distinguished, and associate fellows and fellows as well. All these guys do is sit in calls so they can steal each others ideas. Then go implement them in some shoddy fashion so they can say they did it. Who cares if it works in production or provides any tangible return on investment for the time expenditure. The engineering culture at Verizon is utter garbage and it is perpetuated by the leadership within GTS. It is beyond simple incompetence, the leadership in GTS does not even have an idea of what competent software delivery is. It’s not incompetence because that would imply some intent to do things correctly. It’s simple ignorance. I have seen a VP of Site Reliability Engineering shoot down a Distinguished Engineers suggestion that engineers should be able to run the code that they are working in locally to validate results. The VP thought that was an absurd request. To put that in layman's terms the guy was just saying that when I paint a picture I should be able to see the canvas as I paint. That was dismissed. That’s the level of ignorance we’re dealing with. To reverse this level of cancerous spread you would need to inundate GTS with so much chemotherapy and radiation it likely would die out before any recovery was ever observed. I really do believe that the only way back is just terminating all of GTS leadership. Stop all software delivery. Bring in VP’s from actual tech companies who have actual software engineering experience within the past decade. Allow them to document ALL of the inner workings of the existing systems. Publish that documentation to OneConfluence or some adjacent documentation platform. Grant access to this documentation to ALL VZ Software Engineers. Release all of our Fellows, and Associate Fellows. Replace them with real engineers from real tech companies. THEN you can START redesigning the systems that collect all of VZ’s money. So regardless of Vivek's character do you really think he is prepared to make this level of systemic change to how Verizon delivers software? Or do you think he will just perpetuate slop delivery ad nauseam until Verizon crumbles or someone does the needful that I have laid out here?

Can someone explain how they are tracking productivity? What’s the software? Is it just Viva Insights? What are they tracking? Who gets the reports? Please share if you actually know. This is important info for all of us!

Never works. Horrid software.

Jeremy Bachelor in Arts is giving a speech on software today,
other speakers Martha Stewart on differential equations,
and the Michelin man on theology.

Anyone who's spent five seconds using them knows that Excel is way better than Sheets than what you'd get from say, Copilot vs. Google Gemini. Are they trying to destroy my productivity? I already know the answer. You complete fu--ing mo--ns.

We just heard that AI was used to generate an embedded software application that was previously written by a team of 10 software engineers. It took the team 8 months to create the embedded software.

AI completed the task in 22.6 hours. There was a 4.3% error rate that required manual correction. AI is getting better though...

Layoffs are coming especially for anyone that writes software by hand.

The architect for our organization keeps using Gartner reports , online research and chatgpt to command what the devs need to do. He has no clue on real software development, has not written a line of code and woefully incompetent. Our MD loves the BS this person produces with power point slides. EA org loves him as they are equally incompetent. My head hurts and I am losing all will to try push for coding the appropriately designed software stack for our business.

WHAT a surprise? All the software EV bullsh-t is out and the traditional car guy to rescue? Looking forward to the Apple exodus from Ford. Those cocky A H**

Well, at least you do not have to support UKG PRO WFM any longer. As a user, this application is a complete piece of SH . . . Well, you get it. WFC might be old, but at least it worked. Sorry for all these folks.

With the corporate split, two major parts of HON that have high barriers to entry are now their own companies. It seems all Automation wants to talk about is software, AI, software, AI, software, AI, which any startup can also sell in. Is the “innovating by powerpoint” finally going to come home to roost, no longer able to hide in the conglomerate?

I am looking to make a heroic return to State Farm. How have things been since 2020 after I left? Has the pay gotten any better? I'm looking at working as a Software Engineer as the market is too brutal right now and this place is my only hope. Is the interview process still easy?

This seems interesting as the classed the trademark was filed is 009, 036, 042.
IC 009: Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application
IC 036: Financial exchange; Financial information; Financial processing
IC 042 Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring softwar for tokenization of assets.

You can go to uspto.gov and search for yourself and get more details.....

I write this as a user of QuickBooks, not as an employee. I'm an accountant. QuickBooks has been my lifeblood. Over the past 5 years, this software has been absolutely destroyed. What was simple has become complicated. What was efficient has become slow, clunky, and unresponsive. The A.I. features are an absolute joke, introducing so many errors that have to be manually fixed. The interface screen used to so intuitive, but is now a confusing mess. Function buttons that were on the front screen are now buried under 3 levels of menus. And glitches... now so many glitches. Transactions are lost. Saved items miraculously disappear. Many of my clients have experienced payroll tax issues.

You can tell the coding was outsourced to engineers in India. Total cr-p design.

Customer service is an absolute joke. Foreign people who can barely speak english reading canned responses from their "Intuit Customer Service Book".

This company is going down. They destroyed a great product. Outsource your engineering to a 3rd world country and you'll get 3rd world results.

Last I left in August, you guys were still using ChatGPT or just getting started. Has there been a Switch to Claude Code yet?

Let’s avoid spreading rumors about layoffs- it can be really demotivating and stressful for everyone.

So whoever has been doing this for past few days- please stop!

And nobody should be flippant about it. We all have very good reasons to be anxious.

Block revealed plans to reduce its workforce significantly. The company stated artificial intelligence tools enable a smaller, more effective team. Block shares rose sharply following the news. Conversely, the broader software sector experienced a decline. This market reaction indicates investor approval for tech workforce reductions.

https://www.aol.com/articles/blocks-layoffs-could-3-companies-070500078.html